We are in the oil business.

我们身在鲸油业。

Maybe that's why the snake oil business has never really recovered.

或许这也是蛇油生意不再真正复苏的原因。

'I was in the drug business and then I was in the oil business.

他改口说，" 我做药材生意，后来又做过石油生意。

He and his wife, Barbara, then moved to Texas where he worked in the oil business.

他和妻子芭芭拉后来搬到了德克萨斯州，在那里从事石油生意。

It can be an oil business, like John D. Rockefeller did with the Standard Oil Trust.

公司类型可以是石油公司，比如约翰·戴维森·洛克菲勒创办的标准石油公司。

Oh, and one other thing – the oil business is a little bit like a poker game.

哦，还有一件事，石油生意有点像玩扑克游戏。

Her father entered the oil business. He struggled as a small businessman to compete with the large oil companies.

她的父亲进入了石油工业。作为一个小商人，他艰难地与大型石油公司竞争。

She tried to talk to businessmen who worked in the oil business. At first, few would agree to talk.

她尝试和在石油行业工作的商人交谈。起初，很少有人同意。

Britain has appointed a senior figure from the oil business to run the agency that deals with large-scale state projects.

英国已任命来自石油行业的资深人物来运行国家大型项目所涉及的机构。

In fact, there's still an oil business.

事实上，仍然有石油业务。

Jealous? - No, I just thought Hessington was in the oil business, not the snake oil business.

嫉妒吗 -不 只是我以为海辛顿是做石油生意的 而不是万灵油生意。

Looks like he's a pretty big deal in the oil business.

他在石油领域还是个大人物呢。

Indeed, Rockefeller displayed unusual business ability even before he entered the oil business.

事实上，洛克菲勒在进入石油行业之前就表现出了非凡的商业能力。

There's no way to have a monopoly in the oil business.

在石油行业根本没办法走垄断这条路。

After earning a degree at Yale, the elder Bush moved his family to Texas, where he made a fortune in the oil business.

在耶鲁大学毕业之后，老布什和家人搬到了德克萨斯，在那里他在石油生意上赚了一大笔钱。

But critics say the oil business is seriously hurting the life of the lake and the lives of those who depend on it.

但是批评家说，石油行业正在严重伤害湖泊的生活和依赖它的人的生活。

As one executive put it two days later, everything in the Russian oil business was " frozen" : banks, ports, ships and suppliers.

正如两天后一位高管所说，俄罗斯石油行业的一切都被“冻结”了：银行、港口、船舶和供应商。

When he was a child, his father moved here to Los Angeles and became involved in the oil business.

当他还是个孩子的时候，他的父亲搬到了洛杉矶， 开始从事石油生意。

The oil business is about oil as much as you being a lawyer is about the law.

石油行业就是和石油打交道和你做律师是和法律打交道一样。

He returned to the United States and began working in the oil business with his father.

他回到美国，开始和父亲一起从事石油生意。